Acronym for A Package Tool.

Apt is a system for automatically dealing with package dependencies and installation. The basic tool for apt is apt-get(8); you issue

1. apt-get install foo

And get a screen like this

[root@brian nvidia?# apt-get install gnome-vfs2 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done

The following extra packages will be installed

eel2 nautilus

The following packages will be upgraded

eel2 gnome-vfs2 nautilus

The following packages will be REMOVED

nautilus-printers

3 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 removed and 582 not upgraded. Need to get 4332kB of archives. After unpacking 331kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n?

Apt has calculated that in order to install the latest version of gnome-vfs2, you will need to upgrade to a newer eel2 and nautilus; nautilus-printers is Deprecated by the new version of Nautilus, so it will remove that package.

Designed for Debian's .Deb package format, it also supports RedHat's RPM format through AptForRpm.

WLUG have an APT repository on the way - see http://www.wlug.org.nz/archive/debian/